The forest, when bare, reveals all. A few days ago, we discovered, leaning over the parapet of our terrace, that there is a log cabin,...

Winds of change Please do carry the voice of truth far and wide Across battlefields And burning skies Over charred remains Mothers’ empty...

Back then, during the cold winter evenings, the five women would gather in Ida’s barn to keep warm. They looked forward to this time of...

She was very attractive, but her nails were bitten to the quick. This meant that her hands were usually balled into fists on her lap or...

The day we met, a major storm was brewing. The city was a flurry with bits of paper and garbage whipping about in a crazy dance of leaps,...

What a read! A confession of sorts within an answer to a question…”What were you to my father?” A declaration of having existed on this...

I was hit squarely with the strong distinctive odor of cabbage and fried schnitzel while descending the stairs from my friend’s fourth...

Back to basics Characters representing words placed on an associated pictorial (see cover page drawing where feet and a head were added...

An explosion of ideas Basquiat, Haring and Banksy did it via their Graffiti art. Madonna did it via her music. Writers, architects,...

A Room of One’s Own Consider this…The doughnut hole is an integral part of the doughnut. It has a designation (doughnut hole) and a...

When DIY reigned Back in the late seventies and into the eighties there existed the gritty, garage style, grass roots fanzine. A...

haunting and elegant The Goldfinch introduced me to this author whose quirky trademark is that it takes her ten years to complete each...

LET’S TALK Fusion, in the kitchen, is the mixing of cuisines (ingredients and preparatory methods) from differing or foreign cultures....

I started keeping a diary at an early age. Back then, I used differently scented and variously colored pens for my scribbles. Ink that...

You Have A staggering need to overpower Be the person of the hour With your far and your wide Versus others’ steady ride Convinced your...

We were completely surrounded. Bodies pressing into us, hands prying and violating; a crush of human flesh and bones. The ATM’s had been...

Jessie the cat Lived in our flat On the last floor Behind the green door Jessie sat on the sill All curled up and still Watching the...

A generous deeply felt read A yo-yo of emotions, intelligent and a work of love Beautiful prose, full of nuances, layers and texture...

THE LETTER “W” Words. So many words jostling and competing, some surviving and thriving, while others are left behind to die. The trick...

THE LETTER “F” F orever forging forward, dragging everything and everyone along in her wake, as unwittingly flew towards the finishing...